I hold a strange BF who have Type 1 Diabetes. When his sugar get low he sleepwalks. Is here any track to prevent it?
We have only been dating for 1 month but I am starting to plummet in love with him. However, he has not be managing the disease well and went into a coma once and recently I be told had convulsions when his BG dropped to 18. He recently was hospitalized and is person treated by a specialist for this. I believe he will be getting the insulin pump in about a week.
night I did an overnight and it be very scarey for me. He turned into a different person in the middle of the hours of darkness and called me bad names. I posted past on this forum about this. It frightened me terribly and I ended up disappearing the hotel and police and paramedics came.
I am now happy that he getting the medical watchfulness he needs and will be getting the pump. He also mentioned something about a new open-handed of insulin - NPH - that is longer lasting.
It is early enough in the relationship where on earth I can walk if I have to. I am just hoping near is some way to avoid leaving him. I am trying to figure out if in that is anyway to guarantee this sleep walking will not recur. I know the pump should significantly reduce the chances of reoccurence, but everything I read sounds like here is no cure for this.
As he is a former marine (got diabetes in the marine corp) for those wondering, and also have an abusive childhood, I worry that the low blood sugar and sleep walking could cause combative or even mutinous episodes. He is a wonderful guy the rest of the time, it's just these overnights i dread. Without overnights we have no future.
particularly sad for him and for myself as this might mean he will ever have a middle-of-the-road relationship or get married. He is a very big guy 6'3, 230 lbs, and if he gets combative surrounded by his sleep it is terrifying to me.
Is there anything I am overlooking? Is there anyway this can work out. I read nearly some alarms that can attached to the wrist at night that will ring if blood sugar drops. Would that be a solution?
t of all I would ask you to shame the first two clowns that responded. They obviously know little, if anything, about diabetes or how hypoglycemia can affect someone.
Noccie is correct about the CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) system. It's not worn on the wrist, but is another short-term insert that fits in just like the cannula of the pump's set.
Although the long-term benefits are apparent in tons cases, the early days may actually cause more anxiety. This is because due to the certainty that only fast-acting insulin is used, there's a greater chance of hypoglycemia occurring. This, of course, way that more frequent blood testing must take place, and my own advice, base on personal experience, is that your boyfriend should wake up at least once or twice a night, to originate with, to purposely check his blood sugar levels.
One advantage of using a pump is that the insulin human being infused can be temporarily paused when blood sugar levels are low, and restarted after remedial action is taken.
alise it's a bit delayed offering this information now ... after the earlier incident has already taken place, but your boyfriend should ensure that he test his blood sugar level prior to going to sleep. This way he would be able to ascertain whether or not his blood sugar smooth is low enough to warrant eating something before he go to sleep.
Unfortunately, hypoglycemic attacks, and particularly when you're asleep, do cause changes to mood and sense of self. (I speak from experience on this.) First of all, your body will get signals that your blood sugar level is falling. This is totally often noticeable when you're awake, but when you're asleep you, obviously, wouldn't recognise it straight away. By the time you do recognise it, your blood sugar rank may well already be very low. The instinctive thing afterwards is that your body will try to survive. It will do this by 'ordering' your body to find the nearest source of 'food' ... which could be anything that's close to hand, or even things that are not there. If someone is in the process, they'd better move, or have that source of food right in front of them.
The sooner glucose has re-entered his system, the sooner your boyfriend will return to normal. (You're boyfriend must surely know this anyway, considering he's a type 1 diabetic, and he MUST ensure that there's a ready supply of glucose available ... especially at hours of darkness.)
Even after glucose has been administered and your boyfriend has returned to commonplace he MUST ensure that takes in some food that contains carbohydrates. (Carbohydrates are broken down to give a supply of glucose, which your body requests to survive. Obviously, the breakdown of these carbohydrates takes time, hence the need for an immediate supply of glucose. As this take time, it ensures that there's going to be a supply of glucose within the system for considerably longer. Taking just the glucose ... any by drink or 'tablets' causes a sudden rush of glucose into the bloodstream. Unfortunately, this 'spike' in glucose levels will also topple quite rapidly as there's still insulin within the system, which is making the glucose available to the muscles, etc.)
I preference you both the very best of luck for a happy and continuing relationship.
I sympathize with you. Please follow the advise of those who answered awfully intelligently. Good luck to you and God bless you.
When I first met my Husband he be not looking after his Diabetes at all. He refused to see the doctor and was not on any medication consent to alone insulin!
sed to have terrible moods and would get agressive, althoug hto be do not as bad as your BF seems to be.
People with Diabetes do not necessarily enjoy problems with mood although changes in Blood glucose do affect this, however someone near Diabetes is 50% more likely to suffer with conditions such as depression, anxiety etc...
We rang the airline and asked if we could let them know when he was fit to fly etc.... and get him to his GP.
I virtually forced him to get treated and I would have left him if he refuse. Luckily he got his treatment.
not easy but it does get better. You involve to learn as much as you can with him. I was lucky I am a Pharmacy technician and so he didn't dare pay no attention to me, but it's not the same for everyone.
Give him a chance as he can't control everything, but he needs ot thieve responsibilty himself.
Hope that it works out for you, don't give up just even so...he is probably just scared out of his wits. My husband was fearful which is why he left it. Try and support him and see how it goes. Source(s): Pharmacy technician and husband is diabetic
My son is at the moment human being tested for diabetes, he sleep walks, has sweats and gets comparatively agressive and he is only 4 so I dont think he is doing it on purpose, he is still asleep when he does it. We are not sure but if he is diabetic, but these are the reasons the doctor is testing him for it.
Diabetes can make relatives appear drunk and they can become agressive when thier blood sugar is low.
: diabetes does NOT equal character change. at all. sleepwalking, ok maybe - but calling you name? nuh uh.
he needs to take better care of himself, and you should explain that to him if he requirements this relationship to work as much as you do.
At those levels he be in big trouble!
eeds to take charge of his disease and not tolerate it rule his life. He has to eat correctly and at the proper times. The pump will lend a hand but only if he learns to count carbohydrates correctly.
Sounds like he didn't put away properly or injected too much insulin.
br>
I suggest that you read these two books. You don't have to pay close attention to the books, but you should. Trying to obtain your boyfriend ot read them is unlikely, yet you can try. If he refused, don't worry much, you can do the suggestions within the books, and lead it into your common diets.
The PH Miracle for Diabetes, by Dr. Young.
You can find both at Border Books or Amazon.com or other local book stores.
he has his blood sugars under control, and gets his A1c horizontal below 8%, then try the overnight thing again. Be ready to wake up him if required, and have a box oc cinnamon gram crackers available at all times, in defence his blood sugar level drops.
There is a list of low and high blood sugar syymptoms, and sweating is low sugars, and wants a couple of gram crackers to quickly raise his blood sugars.
Drinking distilled water while at the same time exercising can bring huge problems including lack of salt in the diet.
In a course, you can consider diabetes as simple to fix - the Medical community knows what is wrong, produces drugs to correct the situation and so on.
and scurvy are two other conditions - they are super easy to cure. Gout just requires smaller number meat and protiens in the diet, while scurvy was caused by shortage of fruit in the diet for sailors in the 1800's.
It sounds like you are unsuspecting to give up on this relationship, and I hope that you give it three months to see how he is willing to reorganize his health. Geta A1c test this month, and another in 3 months. If he is committed to making it work, and becoming a relaible partner for overnight stays, capably he should commit himself to lowering his A1c level. He can not fake it, he must do it.
I have a 68 year outdated and 85 year old friend who both have diabetes. They can measure their blood sugar level 3-5 times daily, and control it, so can your boyfriend.
If he is not committed to a relationship, then let it dance. He might change his mind before you find another boyfriend, and his lower A1c test will show his commitment.
can find out adjectives about the A1c test in files.
My diabetic friends are also using Kangen alkaline water. This has allowed them to use less medication while stabilizing his blood sugar level. Becoming less acidic can assist in need less insulin because the insulin becomes more efficient.
Ask for some 8.5 PH drinking water. The same apparatus will make 9.5 PH drinking water, you want to start out drinking 8.5 PH water and dispense up soft drinks. Then after a week or so, drink the 9.0 PH water for a few weeks.
As you exercise, the alkaline water will neturalize the acids that normally build up surrounded by your body, and can cause stomach cramps. It cures acid reflux in a couple of days (even at 8.5 PH).
for a while larger than your BF. 6'4" and 275. You want to make sure he is under control at all times. Something as simple as a cinnamon gram cracker can elevate his blood sugar enough to bring him out of the sleepwalking, or solve a nightmare.
Cinnamon should also be a part of his diet. It helps slow the digestion of foods into blood sugars, so he will not get as large of a sugar spike after eating.
He needs to be wearing a continuous glucose monitor which will sound off an alarm when he go low. This does not attach to his wrist. If you are thinking of the "gluco-watch" this thing just hasn't worked that well. The CGM is attached to him approaching the pump would be.
t going to the endocrinologist appointments next to this guy so you can learn how to help him and make sure he conference to the endocrinologist about his hypoglycemia issues.
This guy sounds like he's awfully high maintainance - is he worth it?
You need to be very strong and '"straight" next to Him:
I am REALLY surprised that a MARINE cannot control a "simple" disease like diabetes. yes, the disease IS fundamentally serious, even deadly, but CONTROLLING the disease is very simple -- follow doctors orders as to medication and dosages, eat correctly, get exercise.
Frankly, it is ALL self-discipline. just what DID the Marines edify him, if not self-discipline?
boyfriend is "justifying" his actions, poor behavior, and lack of self-discipline. This shows a roughly poor character. But YOU seem to be showing pity rather than compassion. Frankly, it seem that youa re in love with him BECAus E of his disease rather than surrounded by spite of it, and I sense a feeling that if he was not diabetic you would not be with him. Therefore, YOU are not insisting that he bring back better because YOU want somebody to "help", even "mother". this is a POOR basis for a relationship!
IF he cannot learn to control his disease instead of letting it control him, then YOU obligation to walk away. he has mental issues that are going to destroy your relationship -- zilch is "his" fault; "Da Diabetes made me do it" (to mis-quote Flip Wilson). Leave now before the relationship deepen. Heaven forbid you should marry this man and get pregnant. At this time he does NOT show the self-discipline necessary to be a good husband and father.
By making your continued participation surrounded by his life contingent on how well HE learns to fiddle with his disease, you may be able to affect how and how well he handles the rest of his existence.
but I CAN tell you for a fact -- THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO HELP HIM. He must learn to sustain himself, and you CAN be a "causitive factor" in that change of lifestyle.
i dont get sweats or sleep meander but i can get aggresive and pissed off real easily(type 1 as well). i never thought that could develop actually-sleepwalk.what my mom does is checks me in the middle of the night to make sure im not low or lofty. he could have an alarm clock or somthing go off at resembling 2am or whenever he usually is low. he could have a snack before he goes to bed close to peanut better crackers or something.
pump will help LOTS! you can change the settings so he CANT go low-or at lowest less often-at night. plus you change it every 3-4 days instead of doing shots approaching 5 or more times a day. you can also get this thingy that does your BG every like minute and tell the pump. you change that every 6 days and its pretty simple to use! but you still have to do your blood sugar-just less recurrently but when you do the blood sugar, you have to put in the pump so the blood meter thingy knows.
yea, capably, hope i could help!
Tell him to knock it off. Diabetes is not an excuse for everything
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night I did an overnight and it be very scarey for me. He turned into a different person in the middle of the hours of darkness and called me bad names. I posted past on this forum about this. It frightened me terribly and I ended up disappearing the hotel and police and paramedics came.
I am now happy that he getting the medical watchfulness he needs and will be getting the pump. He also mentioned something about a new open-handed of insulin - NPH - that is longer lasting.
It is early enough in the relationship where on earth I can walk if I have to. I am just hoping near is some way to avoid leaving him. I am trying to figure out if in that is anyway to guarantee this sleep walking will not recur. I know the pump should significantly reduce the chances of reoccurence, but everything I read sounds like here is no cure for this.
As he is a former marine (got diabetes in the marine corp) for those wondering, and also have an abusive childhood, I worry that the low blood sugar and sleep walking could cause combative or even mutinous episodes. He is a wonderful guy the rest of the time, it's just these overnights i dread. Without overnights we have no future.
particularly sad for him and for myself as this might mean he will ever have a middle-of-the-road relationship or get married. He is a very big guy 6'3, 230 lbs, and if he gets combative surrounded by his sleep it is terrifying to me.
Is there anything I am overlooking? Is there anyway this can work out. I read nearly some alarms that can attached to the wrist at night that will ring if blood sugar drops. Would that be a solution?
t of all I would ask you to shame the first two clowns that responded. They obviously know little, if anything, about diabetes or how hypoglycemia can affect someone.
Noccie is correct about the CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) system. It's not worn on the wrist, but is another short-term insert that fits in just like the cannula of the pump's set.
Although the long-term benefits are apparent in tons cases, the early days may actually cause more anxiety. This is because due to the certainty that only fast-acting insulin is used, there's a greater chance of hypoglycemia occurring. This, of course, way that more frequent blood testing must take place, and my own advice, base on personal experience, is that your boyfriend should wake up at least once or twice a night, to originate with, to purposely check his blood sugar levels.
One advantage of using a pump is that the insulin human being infused can be temporarily paused when blood sugar levels are low, and restarted after remedial action is taken.
alise it's a bit delayed offering this information now ... after the earlier incident has already taken place, but your boyfriend should ensure that he test his blood sugar level prior to going to sleep. This way he would be able to ascertain whether or not his blood sugar smooth is low enough to warrant eating something before he go to sleep.
Unfortunately, hypoglycemic attacks, and particularly when you're asleep, do cause changes to mood and sense of self. (I speak from experience on this.) First of all, your body will get signals that your blood sugar level is falling. This is totally often noticeable when you're awake, but when you're asleep you, obviously, wouldn't recognise it straight away. By the time you do recognise it, your blood sugar rank may well already be very low. The instinctive thing afterwards is that your body will try to survive. It will do this by 'ordering' your body to find the nearest source of 'food' ... which could be anything that's close to hand, or even things that are not there. If someone is in the process, they'd better move, or have that source of food right in front of them.
The sooner glucose has re-entered his system, the sooner your boyfriend will return to normal. (You're boyfriend must surely know this anyway, considering he's a type 1 diabetic, and he MUST ensure that there's a ready supply of glucose available ... especially at hours of darkness.)
Even after glucose has been administered and your boyfriend has returned to commonplace he MUST ensure that takes in some food that contains carbohydrates. (Carbohydrates are broken down to give a supply of glucose, which your body requests to survive. Obviously, the breakdown of these carbohydrates takes time, hence the need for an immediate supply of glucose. As this take time, it ensures that there's going to be a supply of glucose within the system for considerably longer. Taking just the glucose ... any by drink or 'tablets' causes a sudden rush of glucose into the bloodstream. Unfortunately, this 'spike' in glucose levels will also topple quite rapidly as there's still insulin within the system, which is making the glucose available to the muscles, etc.)
I preference you both the very best of luck for a happy and continuing relationship.
I sympathize with you. Please follow the advise of those who answered awfully intelligently. Good luck to you and God bless you.
When I first met my Husband he be not looking after his Diabetes at all. He refused to see the doctor and was not on any medication consent to alone insulin!
sed to have terrible moods and would get agressive, althoug hto be do not as bad as your BF seems to be.
People with Diabetes do not necessarily enjoy problems with mood although changes in Blood glucose do affect this, however someone near Diabetes is 50% more likely to suffer with conditions such as depression, anxiety etc...
We rang the airline and asked if we could let them know when he was fit to fly etc.... and get him to his GP.
I virtually forced him to get treated and I would have left him if he refuse. Luckily he got his treatment.
not easy but it does get better. You involve to learn as much as you can with him. I was lucky I am a Pharmacy technician and so he didn't dare pay no attention to me, but it's not the same for everyone.
Give him a chance as he can't control everything, but he needs ot thieve responsibilty himself.
Hope that it works out for you, don't give up just even so...he is probably just scared out of his wits. My husband was fearful which is why he left it. Try and support him and see how it goes. Source(s): Pharmacy technician and husband is diabetic
My son is at the moment human being tested for diabetes, he sleep walks, has sweats and gets comparatively agressive and he is only 4 so I dont think he is doing it on purpose, he is still asleep when he does it. We are not sure but if he is diabetic, but these are the reasons the doctor is testing him for it.
Diabetes can make relatives appear drunk and they can become agressive when thier blood sugar is low.
: diabetes does NOT equal character change. at all. sleepwalking, ok maybe - but calling you name? nuh uh.
he needs to take better care of himself, and you should explain that to him if he requirements this relationship to work as much as you do.
At those levels he be in big trouble!
eeds to take charge of his disease and not tolerate it rule his life. He has to eat correctly and at the proper times. The pump will lend a hand but only if he learns to count carbohydrates correctly.
Sounds like he didn't put away properly or injected too much insulin.
br>
I suggest that you read these two books. You don't have to pay close attention to the books, but you should. Trying to obtain your boyfriend ot read them is unlikely, yet you can try. If he refused, don't worry much, you can do the suggestions within the books, and lead it into your common diets.
The PH Miracle for Diabetes, by Dr. Young.
You can find both at Border Books or Amazon.com or other local book stores.
he has his blood sugars under control, and gets his A1c horizontal below 8%, then try the overnight thing again. Be ready to wake up him if required, and have a box oc cinnamon gram crackers available at all times, in defence his blood sugar level drops.
There is a list of low and high blood sugar syymptoms, and sweating is low sugars, and wants a couple of gram crackers to quickly raise his blood sugars.
Drinking distilled water while at the same time exercising can bring huge problems including lack of salt in the diet.
In a course, you can consider diabetes as simple to fix - the Medical community knows what is wrong, produces drugs to correct the situation and so on.
and scurvy are two other conditions - they are super easy to cure. Gout just requires smaller number meat and protiens in the diet, while scurvy was caused by shortage of fruit in the diet for sailors in the 1800's.
It sounds like you are unsuspecting to give up on this relationship, and I hope that you give it three months to see how he is willing to reorganize his health. Geta A1c test this month, and another in 3 months. If he is committed to making it work, and becoming a relaible partner for overnight stays, capably he should commit himself to lowering his A1c level. He can not fake it, he must do it.
I have a 68 year outdated and 85 year old friend who both have diabetes. They can measure their blood sugar level 3-5 times daily, and control it, so can your boyfriend.
If he is not committed to a relationship, then let it dance. He might change his mind before you find another boyfriend, and his lower A1c test will show his commitment.
can find out adjectives about the A1c test in files.
My diabetic friends are also using Kangen alkaline water. This has allowed them to use less medication while stabilizing his blood sugar level. Becoming less acidic can assist in need less insulin because the insulin becomes more efficient.
Ask for some 8.5 PH drinking water. The same apparatus will make 9.5 PH drinking water, you want to start out drinking 8.5 PH water and dispense up soft drinks. Then after a week or so, drink the 9.0 PH water for a few weeks.
As you exercise, the alkaline water will neturalize the acids that normally build up surrounded by your body, and can cause stomach cramps. It cures acid reflux in a couple of days (even at 8.5 PH).
for a while larger than your BF. 6'4" and 275. You want to make sure he is under control at all times. Something as simple as a cinnamon gram cracker can elevate his blood sugar enough to bring him out of the sleepwalking, or solve a nightmare.
Cinnamon should also be a part of his diet. It helps slow the digestion of foods into blood sugars, so he will not get as large of a sugar spike after eating.
He needs to be wearing a continuous glucose monitor which will sound off an alarm when he go low. This does not attach to his wrist. If you are thinking of the "gluco-watch" this thing just hasn't worked that well. The CGM is attached to him approaching the pump would be.
t going to the endocrinologist appointments next to this guy so you can learn how to help him and make sure he conference to the endocrinologist about his hypoglycemia issues.
This guy sounds like he's awfully high maintainance - is he worth it?
You need to be very strong and '"straight" next to Him:
I am REALLY surprised that a MARINE cannot control a "simple" disease like diabetes. yes, the disease IS fundamentally serious, even deadly, but CONTROLLING the disease is very simple -- follow doctors orders as to medication and dosages, eat correctly, get exercise.
Frankly, it is ALL self-discipline. just what DID the Marines edify him, if not self-discipline?
boyfriend is "justifying" his actions, poor behavior, and lack of self-discipline. This shows a roughly poor character. But YOU seem to be showing pity rather than compassion. Frankly, it seem that youa re in love with him BECAus E of his disease rather than surrounded by spite of it, and I sense a feeling that if he was not diabetic you would not be with him. Therefore, YOU are not insisting that he bring back better because YOU want somebody to "help", even "mother". this is a POOR basis for a relationship!
IF he cannot learn to control his disease instead of letting it control him, then YOU obligation to walk away. he has mental issues that are going to destroy your relationship -- zilch is "his" fault; "Da Diabetes made me do it" (to mis-quote Flip Wilson). Leave now before the relationship deepen. Heaven forbid you should marry this man and get pregnant. At this time he does NOT show the self-discipline necessary to be a good husband and father.
By making your continued participation surrounded by his life contingent on how well HE learns to fiddle with his disease, you may be able to affect how and how well he handles the rest of his existence.
but I CAN tell you for a fact -- THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO HELP HIM. He must learn to sustain himself, and you CAN be a "causitive factor" in that change of lifestyle.
i dont get sweats or sleep meander but i can get aggresive and pissed off real easily(type 1 as well). i never thought that could develop actually-sleepwalk.what my mom does is checks me in the middle of the night to make sure im not low or lofty. he could have an alarm clock or somthing go off at resembling 2am or whenever he usually is low. he could have a snack before he goes to bed close to peanut better crackers or something.
pump will help LOTS! you can change the settings so he CANT go low-or at lowest less often-at night. plus you change it every 3-4 days instead of doing shots approaching 5 or more times a day. you can also get this thingy that does your BG every like minute and tell the pump. you change that every 6 days and its pretty simple to use! but you still have to do your blood sugar-just less recurrently but when you do the blood sugar, you have to put in the pump so the blood meter thingy knows.
yea, capably, hope i could help!
Tell him to knock it off. Diabetes is not an excuse for everything
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